wow, it's pretty late for a worknight. and i get to be up right now
because i can wake up a whole hour later than usual tomorrow because i am
living in the city right now. this is pretty exciting. of course this
isn't permanent. i'm just house-sitting. but it's pretty cool. now all
i have to do is explore a bit because, well, that's what people do, right?

i should talk about the blair witch project, because that's actually some
interesting stuff. the movie, in my opinion, was wonderful. however, the
other responses i heard in the theatre ranged from "wow" to "that was such
bullshit" so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

first of all, a word of advice. don't sit near the front of the theatre
to see this movie. as it's done all "indie style documentary we're
carrying camcorders all ofer the woods"-like, the entire movie is really
shakey. sitting in the front of the theatre, i actually had to turn away
for a lot of it simply because i was getting too sick watching the screen.

i think that the script was the hardest part of the movie for people to
handle. there wasn't really a problem with the concept. "interesting" was
how the people i saw it with described it. interesting concept,
interesting cinematicaly, interesting take on horror films, but boring.
the problem is that the plot is not intricate at all. there is one plot,
it pretty much carries through the entire movie, and that's it. for a
generation and a society which is used to so many different angles all the
time, having such a directed focus was very different.

but what struck me most of all about the script was that it was completely
first person. when the camera operator is one of the actors, the audience
gets a completely different movie. instead of just watching the world
from audienceland, this movie actually brings the audience closer to the
action by removing any notion of "movie" at all. by cutting out any
notion of having a director and crew on one side of the action, and the
actors on the otherside, the audience can't help but feel a connection
with the characters. after all, they are both seeing the world the same
way.

of course the first person aspect of the movie really did it for me as
well. first person always seems so much more real. so much more
believeable because you want to be able to trust the person telling the
story.

this was the first movie i'd seen in a long time, and it's definitely
renewed my belief that the entire world isn't as mainstream as i might
have imagined. mainstream does have the ability to be interesting once
again.